The team has extensive experience with the effects of cavitation, successfully applying it across multiple innovative prototypes:

Prototype One – Mining – Enhanced Tailings Recovery
This prototype focused on achieving significantly higher mineral recovery rates from mining waste, or “tailings,” compared to leading industry technologies. A small lab-scale prototype demonstrated the process on gold tailings, proving it could recover mineral ore particles as small as 10 microns at very low cost.

Prototype Two – Oil Sands Separation
Designed to cleanly and economically recover hydrocarbons from Alberta oil sands, this prototype demonstrated the ability to separate and recover 100% of the materials in oil tar sands into their main constituents.

Prototype Three – Oil Viscosity Reduction
This prototype targeted viscosity reduction in oil tars (such as bitumen and black wax), enabling these heavy products to be efficiently transported by pipeline to refineries, significantly reducing the need for costly diluents.

Prototype Four – Plastic-to-Hydrocarbon Conversion
This prototype utilized cavitation and an advanced custom-designed “impulse generator” to create powerful shock waves in turbulent liquid flow. This process successfully broke down small plastic particles in water, extracting carbon and hydrogen to synthesize hydrocarbon liquids similar to oil.

Each of these prototypes showcases the versatility and power of cavitation for sustainable resource recovery and processing.